1 December Qualcomm unveiled Snapdragon 888 mobile platform at Snapdragon Tech Summit. All major smartphone brands are expected to release SD888-based flagship phones in 2021. It seems that Honor may also launch a smartphone with Snapdragon 885 next year.
When asked about the partnership with Honor during a video interview, Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon replied: “Qualcomm is very pleased with the new entrant to the market. This will bring more consumer potential to the market and consumers will love it. I love the vitality of the Chinese mobile phone market and hope that Honor can offer more good products. But now everything has just begun, and we will also have a dialogue. "
Honor was previously expected to announce the Honor V40 series in December. However, a new leak has shown that it may not become official in January 2021. Due to the US trade ban, the Honor V40 series may not have the new Kirin 9000 that is used in the Mate 40 series. There are rumors that Dimensity 1000+ chipsets could be used in the V40 models.
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Honor is expected to announce the Honor 40 series of flagship phones around the second quarter of 2021. It is unclear if it will be powered by the Snapdragon 888 chipset.
Amon also talked about the collaboration between Qualcomm and Huawei... He said that while the company applied for licensing of all of its product lines to the US government, it was only allowed to provide Huawei with 4G chips, computing, and Wi-Fi products. Amon added: “ Of course, we look forward to doing business with Huawei on 5G flagship products, but this can only be done after approval. "
